Federal Appeals Court Allows Texas To Enforce State Immigration Law

House Votes To Extend Surveillance Powers Until April 30 The US House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill extending Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) - which was notoriously abused so spy on the 2016 Trump campaign, and has been used for "backdoor searches" targeting Americans. Friday's vote - via unanimous consent after a longer five-year reauthorization pushed by Republicns failed to advance - extends Section 702 until April 30.  The short-term measure now moves to the Senate, which faces a looming deadline: the current authorization expires April 20....

US Southern Command said on Wednesday that its forces bombed another alleged drug-running boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean as the Trump administration continues the extra-judicial executions at sea. SOUTHCOM said the strike killed two male “narco-terrorists,” a term the Trump administration has adopted in its attempts to justify killing people for an alleged crime […]

Ukraine Suspends Attacks On Tankers Using Russian Black Sea Port, At Vance's Urging At the urging of Vice President JD Vance, Ukraine has suspended attacks on oil tankers using the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which sits on the Black Sea. The request was made in late July, but first reported today by the Financial Times, citing Ukrainian officials.  Vance's plea sprang from the Trump administration's worries that Ukraine's attacks were creating dangerous instability in global fuel markets. There were also concerns that strikes on vessels transporting Kazakhstan crude oil to the...